City Review — Daugavpils, September 2026
Daugavpils registered 88 flat sales in September, against 77 a year earlier. Over the past 12 months that adds up to 1,034, 11.2% more than the year before. While Latvia as a whole has fewer sales this year than last, Daugavpils has more.
The September median is €380/m², the 12-month median €317/m². The month looks dearer than the year because prices have been climbing all year. It's the longer window that shows where Daugavpils really stands.
The month in numbers
| Metric | September 2026 | 3 months | 12 months | 12 mo. vs last year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deals | 88 | 263 | 1,034 | +11.2% |
| Median, €/m² | 380 | 368 | 317 | +14.1% |
| Average, €/m² | 386 | 406 | 363 | +11.6% |
| Median price | €17,500 | €15,000 | €13,000 | +18.2% |
| Average size, m² | 46.5 | 44.6 | 44.4 | −3.2% |
The month column holds 88 deals: enough for a headline, not for a segment. Everywhere below, where the figure splits further, the window is 12 months: the smaller the slice, the longer the window.
What moved
Daugavpils is almost entirely Soviet-era. 97.2% of the year's sales happen in buildings put up before 1991, averaging €357/m² and €16,620 per flat. In buildings from 1992–2014 a square metre costs €571, but there were only 29 such sales in the year, and not a single new-development sale in the past 12 months. Daugavpils' average price is, in effect, the price of a Soviet-era block.
12-month window, average price. Soviet-era blocks make up 97.2% of all sales. Buildings from after 1991 saw only 29 sales in the year; there were no new-development (2015+) sales at all.
The fair comparison with Rīga. On average price Daugavpils is at about 26% of Rīga's level, on the median at 27%. Put like next to like, and Soviet-era blocks cost €357/m² in Daugavpils against €1,176/m² in Rīga: −69.7% for the same generation of building. Across all of Latvia the same figure is €808/m², so Daugavpils sits well below the national level too, at about 44% of it.
The curve has been climbing since December. The three-month rolling figure was €323/m² in December 2025 and reached €406/m² in September, its highest in the two years shown. That is 10.0% above the same quarter last year, €369/m². Since December the line hasn't dropped in a single month, summer included.
- Oct 24
- 301
- Sep 26
- 406
Each point is that month plus the two before it, weighted by deal count. A single-month line in one town jumps on a handful of deals.
Small flats rose the most. One-room flats are up 27.1% over the year, though their median price is still only €7,050. Two-room +9.1%, three-room +12.4%, four rooms and more +8.7%. Same direction as Latvia as a whole: the market is rising from the cheap end.
12-month window. Four rooms and more: 22 sales in the year.
The cheap end moved most. The bottom-quartile line rose 19.8% over the year to €185/m²; the top quartile 8.5% to €481/m². 69.0% of sales are still under €20,000, but the fastest-growing band is €20,000–35,000, with 28.7% more sales. The market is shifting up: the cheapest deals are getting dearer, and more purchases land in the next price band.
The street says less than the building. On the busiest streets the median runs from €262/m² on Cialkovska iela to €333/m² on Jātnieku iela. The busiest single building is Dzelzceļu iela 5, built in 1959: 19 sales in the year, with flats of 14 m² on average selling for €4,128. In the nine-storey Raipoles iela 7A, built in 1990, the average is €723/m².
Where you can see it
On average price Daugavpils ranks 25th of 34 Latvian towns with at least 60 sales a year: behind Aizkraukle (€404/m²) and ahead of Jēkabpils (€341/m²). The town accounts for 4.6% of all flat sales in the country, 1,034 out of 22,337, but only 1.4% of the turnover.
Busiest streets in the 12-month window: Jātnieku iela 59 sales (median €333/m²), 18. novembra iela 41 (€298/m²), Vienības iela 39 (€322/m²), Zeļinska iela 35 (€314/m²) and Cialkovska iela 32 (€262/m²). Daugavpils' curve and the prices of individual buildings are in the apartment prices section.
In Daugavpils, a flat's size and the state of its building say more about the price than the address does.
What to do with it
Compare with Soviet-era, not with the average. If you're buying in a Soviet-era block, your benchmark is €357/m², which here is practically the town figure itself. If you're looking at a newer building, the town average tells you little: there were 29 sales in post-1991 buildings all year.
The asking price isn't this price. Right now 155 flats are for sale in Daugavpils at a median €644/m², twice what people actually paid over the past year (€317/m²). Most of that gap is mix: almost a third of actual sales are cheap one-room flats, and there are far fewer of them among listings. It isn't a discount you can haggle out, but it is a reason to compare like with like.
Look at the walls and the heating. Timber-frame buildings average just €95/m², with an average build year of 1932. A low price per square metre in an old wooden house usually means a large renovation bill, not a bargain. Heating a typical Daugavpils flat costs about €486 a year, around €108 in the coldest month. Next to prices this low, that is a cost worth planning for before you buy.
How these numbers are calculated
The town boundary is administrative: a sale belongs to Daugavpils if the address's town is Daugavpils. Surrounding municipalities aren't included.
The figures come from state-registered transactions: flat purchases only, one whole flat per deal. Houses, land and commercial property don't appear here. The deal date is the registration date, not the signing date, so September's deal count will keep growing for several weeks.
Asking prices are a separate dataset: what sellers ask in listings active today, not completed sales. They're here only for comparison. The heating cost is an estimate for a typical flat, not a specific building's bill.
The picture for all of Latvia in the same month: market review for September 2026. For a specific listing in Daugavpils: the full analysis.